Sentence examples for harmonisation and alignment from inspiring English sources

SIR —The harmonisation and alignment commitments you admonish donors for failing to implement are no panacea.

While progress in strengthening country ownership, harmonisation and alignment seems evident, there are ongoing challenges.

One of the objectives of the Programme of Support was to support the MOLSS in its policy, standard setting and monitoring role as well as to contribute to donor harmonisation and alignment.

The findings of this study suggest that the IHP + is making a positive contribution to improving aid effectiveness in the health sector (at least in the ten countries where the study was completed, and for those fifteen Development Partners that participated) in strengthening country ownership, harmonisation and alignment.

The international advocacy for local ownership, harmonisation, and alignment that would be encoded in the Paris Principles on Aid Effectiveness (18) contrasted with the deeply centralised Semashko health systems model inherited from the Soviet Union, with its bureaucratic inertia, centralised management, and lack of transparency and accountability.

The Rome Declaration and its successors, the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action, all emphasized the need for country ownership, harmonisation of donor inputs, and alignment against national priorities as determined by recipient governments.

This should also help shift the balance of power between governments, donors and civil society organisations in ways that will improve alignment, harmonisation and health systems strengthening.

In March 2005, over 100 Ministers, heads of agencies and other senior officials in the sphere of international development committed their countries and organisations to continued efforts to increase harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results, signing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

The findings presented here suggest that the health sector is ahead of the game – in terms of having an established mechanism to promote alignment and harmonisation, and a relatively advanced monitoring framework and methods.

The findings presented here suggest that the health sector is ahead of the game – in terms of having an established mechanism to promote alignment and harmonisation, and having a relatively advanced monitoring framework and methods.

This sectoral evidence, combined with an evaluation of the overall effect of the funds on donor harmonisation, alignment and government ownership, will help to provide a formal evidence-base for the use of this model in other countries facing such transitions.